Éder Mauro
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Éder Mauro | |
|---|---|
 Mauro in February 2017 | |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| Assumed office 1 February 2015 | |
| Constituency | Pará |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Éder Mauro Cardoso Barra 14 December 1960 |
| Party | PL (since 2022) |
| Other political affiliations | |
| Children | Rogério Barra |
| Alma mater | Federal University of Pará (LL.B.) |
| Awards |  Peacemaker Medal [a] |
Éder Mauro Cardoso Barra (born 14 December 1960), better known as Delegado Éder Mauro or simply Éder Mauro, is a Brazilian politician and police chief. He has spent his political career representing Pará, having served as federal deputy representative since 2015.[1]
Mauro is the son of Maria Trindade Martins Cardoso and Vivaldo de Jesus Barra.[1] At the age of seventeen, Mauro took law courses at the Federal University of Pará and entered the police force shortly after graduating from university at the age of twenty-two, where he eventually became chief of the civil police for the state of Pará.[2]
Political career
A member of the parliamentary front known as "Bancada da bala", Mauro is well known in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies for advocating loosing of gun laws and advocating the right to bear arms.[3] The deputy is also part of the Evangelical Caucus[4] of the National Congress and is part of the allied base of the former president Jair Bolsonaro, however during the 2018 state elections in the state of Pará Mauro defended the PSD's position of integrating the support base of the then candidate Helder Barbalho, affiliated to the opposing Brazilian Democratic Movement.[5] As a former police officer, Mauro is well known for his strong stance on crime and punishing criminals.[6]
Mauro ran for mayor of his hometown of Belém under the banner of the PSD party in 2016, but finished third with 128,549 votes (16.53% of the ballot) behind Zenaldo Coutinho and Edmilson Rodrigues.[7]
Mauro voted in favor of the impeachment motion of then-president Dilma Rousseff.[8] Braga voted in favor of the 2017 Brazilian labor reform,[9] and would vote in against opening a corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor Michel Temer.[10]